Return-Path: Subject: Re: [Bluez-devel] Bluetooth Qualification - plan to make a plan From: Stephen Crane To: Marcel Holtmann Cc: halam.rose@7layers-uk.com, BlueZ Mailing List In-Reply-To: <1046865863.1823.55.camel@pegasus.local> References: <1046865863.1823.55.camel@pegasus.local> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1046868444.2860.1095.camel@baroque.rococosoft.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: 05 Mar 2003 12:47:25 +0000 List-ID: On Wed, 2003-03-05 at 12:04, Marcel Holtmann wrote: > > BlueZ seems to be the sole copyright of Qualcomm - is this correct? > > > > Would it be appropriate to make the listing in the name of Qualcomm with Max > > as the contact, or is there now some other kind of BlueZ organisation? > > The copyright thing is not very easy. The core code (HCI and L2CAP) are > copyright of Qualcomm, the BNEP code contains copyright from Inventel > and Max, the RFCOMM code has copyright from Max and me. The HCI drivers > have much more different copyrights inside. For the user space part you > will also get some more names. > > Maybe my idea with an own organization for BlueZ is a good one. Or turn the copyright over to the FSF? (I'd push to have the user-space libs relicensed under the LGPL first though.) Later, Steve -- Stephen Crane, Rococo Software Ltd. http://www.rococosoft.com steve.crane@rococosoft.com +353-1-6601315 (ext 209)